Sentences with phrase «spawning grounds for»

To my mind both situations are the spawning grounds for the human greed response; it is just a matter of degree as to what lengths one will go to in order to «survive».

Why they are attracted to this part of the reef is uncertain, but it may be because this exposed point is one of the premier spawning grounds for groupers and other fish.

Jimmy Carter In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

Desert societies, with their far - flung members tending goats and camels, are classic spawning grounds for warrior classes and the accessories of militarism: military trophies as stepping stones to societal status, death in battle as a guarantee of a glorious afterlife, slavery.

These are known to be major spawning grounds for commercial cod, haddock, saithe and herring fisheries, and protecting the ecosystem there is important.

What is clear is that in coastal areas around the world, people have unwittingly created spawning grounds for huge numbers of jellyfish simply by building docks and other structures that quickly multiplying jellyfish polyps can attach to.

Sometimes entrepreneurial companies are spawning grounds for new ideas about how to run a business — ideas that then spread, in one form or another, to more established enterprises.

Not exact matches

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

It is still too early, however, to measure the next hoped - for benefit of such preserves: serving as spawning grounds to replenish populations outside their boundaries.

This could help identify important spawning grounds to designate for protection and restoration.

The only thing that can save this film for me now is if Godzilla continues to cycle through the colours of the LGBT flag and is cutting a path to the ancient heretofore unknown Zilla spawning grounds where He Godzilla is going to give birth to Godzuki.

Half of the income generated for Shorebank from the card goes to «Salmon Nation» an economic, cultural and ecological community collective in the bioregion that contains Pacific salmon spawning grounds.

Dang, and here I thought the eco-mentalists were certain it was dams keeping them from their spawning grounds, leading to the destruction of dams for the benefit of the fish.